Charge against 13 NPP 'Delta Force' members changed to rioting

Source:Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Oswald K. Azumah

Date:10th-october-2017 Time: 4:25:58 pm

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Thirteen members of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force, have been slapped with a new charge; rioting, after an earlier charge of allegedly assaulting a public officer was dropped.

The thirteen were arrested after the group stormed the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council in protest of the appointment of the Regional Security Coordinator.

During a court session in April this year, the 13 were ‘set free’ by their colleagues who stormed the court and disrupted proceedings. But the suspects later turned themselves in, to the police.

They were initially charged by the police for assault on a public officer but that was dropped.